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From: pjb@tcom.stc.co.uk (Peter J. Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Galactic Bloodshed compiler error
Message-ID: <808@jura.tcom.stc.co.uk>
Date: 10 May 89 19:01:44 GMT
References: <17958@cisunx.UUCP> <2889@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjb@htc2.UUCP (Peter J. Bishop)
Organization: STC Telecomms, Harlow Technical Centre, Harlow
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Hi,

With regard to the problems:

>in article <17958@cisunx.UUCP>, jgsst3@cisunx.UUCP (Lucifer) says:
>> Keywords: doplanet
>> 
>> hi all,
>> 
>> i keep getting this error when i try to compile GB.
>> 
>> "doplanet.c", line 327: compiler error: illegal register pair freed
>> 
>> does anyone know what the problem is?
>> is there a fix floating around?
>> 
>
>   Yeah, I get the same problem and I have no clue.  Keep me informed,
>as I really weant to play this game....

the only solution that I could come up with to solve it was to change the
lines of the form:

	p->popn *= .80;

and change them to read:

	p->popn = p->popn * .80;

Hope this solves your problem.
BTW Does anyone know why this solves the problem? Or have I made a mistake in
the modification?

-- 
Peter Bishop.  <pjb@tcom.stc.co.uk> || ...!mcvax!ukc!stc!pjb
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